Darcy and I are so very excited to release Awaking Wonder to the world.
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Now is a perfect time to Homeschool and I want to help you! I haven’t been this excited or passionate in many years, and I am a passionate person. As we look at the times we are living in, the future of children’s lives is more important than ever. Now is a time to shape their world view, to give them strong and healthy emotional support, to inspire them to hold fast to hope, to think of themselves as light bearers in a dark world. And when parents are passionate about the overall shaping of their children, the world will always have hope. Our God has chosen us to be world shapers, right in our home.
Over 36 years ago, when I was living in Vienna, Austria, God placed a vision of what was possible in the mentoring, discipleship and instruction of precious children, the ones who would carry messages into their generation. And as I had fallen in love with discipleship and mentoring and saw first hand how God used normal people like me to shape a whole country of faith through our mission work in Communist Easter Europe, I saw how He had designed parenting to be a strategic place for the shaping of children, in home disciples.
I dreamed of educating my children in a different way—by bringing them home, away from traditional classrooms to my home. I had no idea what I was doing, but I knew that I wanted my children to have something different—freedom to explore their world, stories to fill their imagination, dress up clothes to pretend and act out any hero tale or winsome narrative, time to be innocent, to become more of who they were made to be without arbitrary comparison to others.
Now, as all of my adult children have forayed out into their worlds and are brimming over with life, purposeful vocations, full and healthy hearts, robust intellects, I am more excited to share our journey than ever.
As we look to the times, and feel the fear and anxiety, we can almost see the darkness, it is a perfect time to be able to give our children lives filled with light, beauty, hope, virtue, love in the multifaceted atmosphere of our homes. We can protect their innocence while capturing their imagination to become strong and good, to serve others.
This is truly a time to awaken our children’s wonder to the love of learning and the fulfillment of living into a meaningful, beautiful life. All parents are teachers, but we are at our best when we take up the mantle of mentorship and become a guide for our children, to lead them into what is good, beautiful and true.
I am happy to help in any way, to provide ideas, to share resources, to encourage you to take the risk of living in a different way in order to bring our children’s imaginations to life.
Never has there been a time when there are more resources available, books, movies, experts, classes that we can bring into our homes to provide excellent, true, wonder-filled sources of every kind to stretch the minds and understanding of our children.
I pray that Awaking Wonder will encourage you and help direct you to understand what really matters in the overall shaping and development of children. I pray our story will lead you to the deeply fulfilling life I have had as a mother, teacher, writer, leader. What a gift I have received that I didn’t know would be so deeply satisfying—and to feel a part of kingdom work in a world that needs hope.
Today, my launch team opens. Will you consider being a part of it and helping me to reach people all over the world with this message? I would be so honored.
And I hope the articles, podcasts, stories I provide in the days ahead will communion in this journey.
Here is the link where you might join. Awaking Wonder Launch Team
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